High-molecule-based organic light-emitting diode and fabrication method thereof
The present invention discloses a high-molecule-based organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and a fabrication method thereof. The high-molecule-based OLED comprises a layer selected from a group consisting of an organic emissive layer, a first emission-auxiliary layer and a second emission-auxiliary layer. The organic emissive layer, first emission-auxiliary layer or second emission-auxiliary layer comprises a molecular material having a molecular weight of larger than approximately 730 g mol−1, and is formed by a solution-process.
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a field of an organic light-emitting diode and a fabrication method thereof. More specifically, the present invention relates to a high-molecule-based organic light-emitting diode and a fabrication method thereof.
2. Description of Related Art
Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are increasingly attracting interest because of their great potential as high-quality flat-panel displays and for liquid-crystal-display backlighting and solid state illumination applications. To replace current display and illumination technologies, and to make the resultant products more energy-saving and last longer, OLEDs with higher power efficiency are demanded. A high efficiency device must possess properties of low carrier-injection-barrier, high carrier mobility, excellent carrier- and exciton-confinement, effective exciton-generation on host, efficient host-guest energy-transfer, balanced carrier-injection and high self-luminescent materials. The use of phosphorescent materials is an important strategy to obtain high-efficiency OLEDs, because they allow for the simultaneous harvesting of both singlet and triplet excitons, achieving nearly 100% internal quantum efficiency. Moreover, the phosphorescent materials must be morphologically stable during fabrication and operation. This fact, on the other hand, has revealed one drawback frequently encountered when employing hosts with low molecular weight that the resultant film integrity may be easily damaged owing to the inherently low glass-transition temperature. As a result, the ideal host molecules, if not polymeric, should be ones with high molecular weight, such as a host molecule, 3,5-di(9H-carbazol-9-yl)tetraphenylsilane, recorded in US Patent No. 2007/0173657.
Furthermore, long lifetime molecular-based organic electronics, such as OLEDs, organic solar cells, organic transistors, organic sensors, organic memories and etc, inevitably demand their constituent molecules to be highly thermal-stable. Polymer materials exhibit varied molecular-weight and are not easy to be purified, causing the resultant devices to commonly exhibit a lower efficiency. In contrary, small molecular materials possess high electroluminescent efficiency but their low molecular weights would cause weak mechanical strength of the film integrity. Coupling with the special needs in molecular design, this will inevitably result in an increase in molecular weight.
However, the increased molecular weight would in turn make the resultant molecules difficult to deposit by using a vacuum evaporation method, while using a solution-process would frequently result in undesired relatively poorer efficiency. As a result, it is necessary to provide an OLED capable of having molecular materials and high efficiency.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONThe present invention provides a high-molecule-based organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and a fabrication method thereof, in which such a high-molecule-based OLED will be highly efficient and thermally stable.
A primary aspect of the present invention is to provide a high-molecule-based OLED. The high-molecule-based OLED comprises an organic emissive layer comprising a host or guest molecular material. The high-molecule-based OLED is characterized by that the host or guest molecule material having a molecular weight of larger than approximately 730 g mol−1, and the organic emission layer formed by a solution-process. The molecular weight of the host or guest molecule material is preferable approximately 730 g mol−1-10000 g mol−1. The host and guest molecular material may further comprise a high glass transition temperature and a high decomposition temperature, respectively. Moreover, the high-molecule-based OLED may further comprise an auxiliary layer selected from a group consisting of a first emission-auxiliary layer and a second emission-auxiliary layer. The first emission-auxiliary layer may be a hole transporting layer and/or a hole injecting layer. The second emission-auxiliary layer may be an electron transporting layer and/or an electron injecting layer. The auxiliary layer may comprise a molecular material having a molecular weight of larger than approximately 730 g mol−1, and the auxiliary layer is deposited by the solution-process. The molecular weight of the molecule material is preferable approximately 730 g mol−1-10000 g mol−1.
Another aspect of the present invention is to provide a method for fabricating a high-molecule-based OLED, the high-molecule-based OLED comprises an organic emissive layer, and the organic emissive layer comprises a host or guest molecular material. The method is characterized by comprising a step of using the host or guest molecule material having a molecular weight of larger than approximately 730 g mol−1, and depositing the organic emissive layer by a solution-process. The host molecular material may comprise 3,5-di(9H-carbazol-9-yl)tetraphenylsilane (SimCP2). The guest molecular material may comprise bis[5-methyl-7-trifluoromethyl-5H-benzo(c)(1,5)naphthyridin-6-one]iridium(picolinate) (CF3BNO). Additionally, the high-molecule-based OLED may further comprise a first emission-auxiliary layer or a second emission-auxiliary layer, in which the first or second emission-auxiliary layer may comprise a molecular material having a molecular weight of larger than approximately 730 g mol−1 and is formed by the solution-process. Wherein, the solution-process may be a spin-coating, screen-printing, inkjet-printing, contact-printing, dip-coating and etc.
According to yet another aspect of the present invention, a high-molecule-based OLED is provided. The high-molecule-based OLED comprises an auxiliary layer selected from a group consisting of a first emission-auxiliary layer and a second emission-auxiliary layer, and is characterized by that the auxiliary layer comprising a molecular material having a molecular weight of larger than approximately 730 g mol−1 and being formed by a solution-process. The high-molecule-based OLED comprises an organic emissive layer, and the organic emissive layer may be sandwiched between the first emission-auxiliary layer and the second emission-auxiliary layer.
According to still another aspect of the present invention, a method for fabricating a high-molecule-based OLED is provided. The high-molecule-based OLED comprises an auxiliary layer selected from a group consisting of a first emission-auxiliary layer and a second emission-auxiliary layer, characterized by that the auxiliary layer comprising a molecular material having a molecular weight of larger than approximately 730 g mol−1, and the auxiliary layer formed by a solution-process.
In brief, the high-molecule-based OLED and the fabrication method thereof in accordance with the present invention provide one or more of the following advantages:
(1) While the comparatively high molecular weight would make the employed molecules extremely difficult to deposit by a vacuum evaporation, and result in poor device performance, the present invention has proven that a solution-process is quite effective and convenient as usual to the fabrication of highly-efficient OLEDs composing high molecular weight molecular components.
(2) The successful demonstration of the present invention may be extended as well to other organic devices that have composed or should compose high molecular weight molecules.
(3) The finding of the new door for molecular-based organic electronics according to the present invention to be highly efficient and thermally stable by a solution-process may also provide a new opportunity to re-investigate numerous previously reported organic materials, especially of high molecular weight, that were fabricated by a dry-process and showed performance poorer than expected.
Other aspects of the present invention will be illustrated partially in the subsequent detailed descriptions, conveniently considered partially through the teachings thereof, or comprehended by means of the disclosed embodiments of the present invention. Various aspects of the present invention can be understood and accomplished by using the components and combinations specifically pointed out in the following claims. It is noted that the aforementioned summary and the following detailed descriptions of the present invention are exemplary and illustrative, rather than being used to limit the scope of the present invention thereto.
The exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be understood more fully from the detailed description given below and from the accompanying drawings of various embodiments of the invention.
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention are described herein in the context of a high-molecule-based organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and a method for fabricating a high-molecule-based OLED.
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Besides, the present invention further fabricates other various OLEDs as comparative examples by way of the similar method in the
As seen in the table 1, the resultant power-efficiency of the blue OLEDs fabricated by a solution-process are very different from that of the ones fabricated by a dry-process. For the mCP-composing OLEDs, the dry-processed device shows a higher efficiency (7.3 lm W−1) than the solution-processed counterpart (5.9 lm W−1), which is in accordance with those observed in most small molecule-based OLED devices. That is the solution-processed OLEDs typically show lower efficiency than the dry-processed counterparts. One plausible reason for that is the inherently low glass-transition temperature (Tg) of small molecules (i.e. low molecular weight), making their resulting films easy to deform upon drying at elevated temperatures after the solution-process, such as spin-coating. For the SimCP-composing devices, the resultant power-efficiency is nearly the same for those by dry- and solution-processes; it was 10.8 lm W−1 for the dry-processed device, while 10.4 lm W−1 for the solution-processed one. As shown in
However, the efficiency exhibited by the dry-processed SimCP2-composing device is far too low, even lower than that of the dry-processed SimCP counterpart. This very poor efficiency performance is attributed to its relatively high molecular weight, which is 997 g mol−1. Whilst, the molecular weight is 666 g mol−1 for SimCP and 406 g mol−1 for mCP. The relatively high molecular weight would make SimCP2 very difficult to vacuum-evaporate. As also indicated in a preliminary nuclear magnetic resonance characterization, the SimCP2 molecules seem to decompose upon vacuum-evaporation (not shown). This may explain why the dry-processed SimCP2-composing device exhibited a very low power-efficiency.
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Besides, the present invention further fabricates other various OLEDs as another embodiment example (BNO-composing OLED by a solution-process) of the present invention and comparative examples (Ir(ppy)3-composing OLED by a solution-process, and CF3BNO—, BNO— and Ir(Ppy)3-composing OLED by a dry-process) by way of the similar method in the
As seen in the table 2, the molecular weights are 869, 733, and 655 g mol−1 for CF3BNO, BNO, and Ir(Ppy)3, respectively. Amongst, the CF3BNO-composing OLED by a solution-process exhibited the highest power efficiency, which was 70.1 lm W−1 at 100 cd m−2 with CIE coordinates of (0.22, 0.51). In contrast, the same CF3BNO-composing one by a dry-process exhibited much lower power efficiency of 21.1 lm W−1. The reason why the dry-processed OLED had exhibited lower OLED efficiency may be attributed to the high molecular weight (869 g mol−1) and low decomposition temperature (290° C.) characters of CF3BNO, which would make it difficult to be vacuum-evaporated at elevated temperatures without decomposition. Similarly, the BNO-composing OLED exhibited a power efficiency of 39.8 lm W−1 by the solution-process, but only 18.5 lm W−1 via dry-process. The high molecular weight (733 g mol−1) and low decomposition temperature (222° C.) of BNO would also make the film of BNO difficult to form via vacuum-evaporation. Contrarily, Ir(ppy)3 had a comparatively lower molecular weight (655 g mol−1) and a much higher decomposition temperature (395° C.), both of which make it much easier to be vacuum-deposited without damaging its molecular integrity. This would in turn result in a high efficiency for the Ir(ppy)3-composing OLED fabricated by the dry-process, as typically observed. Indeed, the dry-processed Ir(ppy)3-composing OLED exhibited efficiency of 30.5 lm W−1, while 18.4 lm W−1 for the solution-processed counterpart.
While particular embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be obvious to those skilled in the art that, based upon the teachings herein, changes and modifications may be made without departing from this invention and its broader aspects. Therefore, the appended claims are intended to encompass within their scope of all such changes and modifications as are within the true spirit and scope of the exemplary embodiment(s) of the present invention.
Claims
1. A high-molecule-based organic light-emitting diode, comprising an organic emissive layer, the organic emissive layer comprising a host or guest molecular material, characterized by that the host or guest molecule material having a molecular weight of larger than approximately 730 g mol−1, and the organic emission layer formed by a solution-process.
2. The high-molecule-based organic light-emitting diode according to claim 1, further comprising an auxiliary layer selected from a group consisting of a first emission-auxiliary layer and a second emission-auxiliary layer, the auxiliary layer comprising a molecular material having a molecular weight of larger than approximately 730 g mol−1, and the auxiliary layer formed by the solution-process.
3. The high-molecule-based organic light-emitting diode according to claim 1, wherein the host molecular material comprises 3,5-di(9H-carbazol-9-yl)tetraphenylsilane (SimCP2).
4. The high-molecule-based organic light-emitting diode according to claim 1, wherein the guest molecular material comprises bis[5-methyl-7-trifluoromethyl-5H-benzo(c)(1,5) naphthyridin-6-one]iridium(picolinate) (CF3BNO).
5. The high-molecule-based organic light-emitting diode according to claim 1, wherein the host molecular material further comprises a high glass-transition temperature, or the guest molecular material further comprises a high decomposition temperature.
6. The high-molecule-based organic light-emitting diode according to claim 1, wherein the solution-process comprises a spin-coating, screen-printing, inkjet-printing, contact-printing or dip-coating.
7. The high-molecule-based organic light-emitting diode according to claim 1, wherein the organic emissive layer is sandwiched between a first emission-auxiliary layer and a second emission-auxiliary layer.
8. The high-molecule-based organic light-emitting diode according to claim 7, wherein the first emission-auxiliary layer comprises a hole transporting layer comprising a material of poly(3,4-ethylene-dioxythiophene)-poly-(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT: PSS).
9. The high-molecule-based organic light-emitting diode according to claim 7, wherein the second emission-auxiliary layer comprises an electron transporting layer comprising a material of 1,3,5-tris(N-phenyl-benzimidazol-2-yl)benzene (TPBi) or an electron injecting layer comprising a material of lithium fluoride (LiF) or cesium fluoride (CsF).
10. A high-molecule-based organic light-emitting diode, comprising an auxiliary layer selected from a group consisting of a first emission-auxiliary layer and a second emission-auxiliary layer, characterized by that the auxiliary layer comprising a molecular material having a molecular weight of larger than approximately 730 g mol−1, and the auxiliary layer formed by a solution-process.
11. A method for fabricating a high-molecule-based organic light-emitting diode, the high-molecule-based organic light-emitting diode comprising an organic emissive layer, the organic emissive layer comprising a host or guest molecular material, characterized by that the method comprising a step of using the host or guest molecule material having a molecular weight of larger than approximately 730 g mol−1 and depositing the organic emissive layer by way of a solution-process.
12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the high-molecule-based organic light-emitting diode further comprises an auxiliary layer selected from a group consisting of a first emission-auxiliary layer and a second emission-auxiliary layer, and the auxiliary layer comprises a molecular material having a molecular weight of larger than approximately 730 g mol−1 and is formed by the solution-process.
13. The method according to claim 11, wherein the host molecular material comprises 3,5-di(9H-carbazol-9-yl)tetraphenylsilane (SimCP2).
14. The method according to claim 11, wherein the guest molecular material comprises bis[5-methyl-7-trifluoromethyl-5H-benzo(c)(1,5)naphthyridin-6-one]iridium(picolinate) (CF3BNO).
15. The method according to claim 11, wherein the host molecular material further comprises a high glass transition temperature, or the guest molecular material further comprises a high decomposition temperature.
16. The method according to claim 11, wherein the solution-process comprises a spin-coating, screen-printing, inkjet-printing, contact-printing or dip-coating.
17. The method according to claim 11, wherein the organic emissive layer is sandwiched between a first emission-auxiliary layer and a second emission-auxiliary layer.
18. The method according to claim 17, wherein the first emission-auxiliary layer comprises a hole transporting layer comprising a material of poly(3,4-ethylene-dioxythiophene)-poly-(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT: PSS).
19. The method according to claim 17, wherein the second emission-auxiliary layer comprises an electron transporting layer comprising a material of 1,3,5-tris (N-phenyl-benzimidazol-2-yl)benzene (TPBi) or an electron injecting layer comprising a material of lithium fluoride (LiF) or cesium fluoride (CsF).
20. A method for fabricating a high-molecule-based organic light-emitting diode, the high-molecule-based organic light-emitting diode comprising an auxiliary layer selected from a group consisting of a first emission-auxiliary layer and a second emission-auxiliary layer, characterized by that the method comprising a step of using the auxiliary layer comprising a molecular material having a molecular weight of larger than approximately 730 g mol−1, and depositing the auxiliary layer formed by way of a solution-process.
Type: Application
Filed: Aug 6, 2009
Publication Date: Feb 10, 2011
Patent Grant number: 8216634
Applicant: NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY (HSIN-CHU)
Inventors: Jwo-Huei Jou (Hsin-Chu), Wei-Ben Wang (Hsin-Chu), Mao-Feng Hsu (Hsin-Chu), Chun-Jang Wang (Hsin-Chu), Yu-Chiao Chung (Hsin-Chu)
Application Number: 12/462,608
International Classification: H01J 1/63 (20060101); C09K 11/06 (20060101); B32B 3/00 (20060101); B05D 5/06 (20060101);